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In the face of Trump’s threats, Britain’s best path is clearer than ever: hurry back to Europe
(www.theguardian.com)
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A broken clock is right twice a day. We did not leave the EU for the long-term betterment of the working class but it is something which we have gained. If we want better working rights, we need to organise within our own country for major changes not join a capitalist, imperialist entity for mild concessions.
Whilst I agree with the ideal pushed by Corbyn and others, the reality of the situation is that the working class in this country is more broken than ever before.
The working class is now more readily manipulated by increasingly popular right-wing media outlets heralded by the deregulation of our media imparted in no small part from our withdrawal from basic EU media legislation.
In short: if you're waiting for a revolution to happen, then you'll be sorely disappointed by how distracted we are to even begin forming a spark
I'm not waiting, I and many others are constantly going through the process of learning and applying Marxist-Leninist ideology to themselves and their local community. The Bolshevik's were a small party until revolution came, the decline and fall of systems and ideologies is not linear, they unpredictably and wildly grow and shrink.
But look around, capitalism is in decay, it is clearer now than it was just a few years ago and in a few years it is very likely it will be even clearer and even more decayed. And this will directly affect people's political views.
Real, signifcant change to our society only has come through organised revolution (it is how feudalism became capitalism) history has shown this. Please read Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxembourg.
The bolsheviks also came about out a time when Russian workers were highly homogenized. There was no 'foreign other' for the elites to point the finger at to distract the masses.
Nowadays, the UK workforce is diverse enough that much of the working class who already had some latent xenophobia bubbling below the surface, can now have it weaponised by fascist parties. The people joining Your party and the Greens, aren't working class. They're maybe lower-lower middle class city folk, but not the labourers of the country